Is Gavin and Stacey supposed to be funny?

[stratobuddy]

I watched alot of the original series, loved Nessa, hate James Cordon thought so it was never a must watch for me. Althought the older actors are all well known and respected, it never quite jelled for me. Did not even think about watching any specials because I just don't care about what happens to any of them. BUT I loved Vengance Most Fowl and would watch that again.

That was really good and very funny.

 

[mina]

I think it's supposed to be faintly funny if you can relate to the characters and the class thing - it just shows working-class people in a supportive, close-knit community (doesn't matter if they're Welsh) and the mistakes they make just like the rest of us and how it all turns out all right in the end because they all love one another really. But it's past its sell-by date because with everyone out at work or in watching telly and people moving around to better themselves nowadays, these situations aren't so common any more so the humour is lost. I find James Corden too obvious to be funny.

I've watched only a couple of episodes and skimmed through the final one, always unimpressed and stony-faced, and I actually can relate to the working-class environment.

 

[Peppermint Patti]

That was really good and very funny.

We started watching it on Christmas night then over halfway through Sky puck cut out and went on to the next programme. It's started doing this regularly as well as sound being out of synch. It's rubbish and we're stuck with it for another 12 months
I don't know if it's true but I was told to log all the problems and they may let you out of the contract foc.

 

[lipstickqueen]

We started watching it on Christmas night then over halfway through Sky puck cut out and went on to the next programme. It's started doing this regularly as well as sound being out of synch. It's rubbish and we're stuck with it for another 12 months
I don't know if it's true but I was told to log all the problems and they may let you out of the contract foc.

I have a Sky puck too, mine has been playing up, but only over the past couple of weeks, I've had mine for over a year. The moving on to the next programme seems to happen to me only when I watch something that has already started, and choose to watch it from the start and then I fast forward through the ads, it happened last night. Also recently, around midnight, it seems to get stuck and replays the last few seconds of a programme over and over until I stop it! I don't know anyone else with a puck so it's good to hear your experiences.

 

[Battiola73]

I thought I was alone in not watching Gavin and Stacie. I watched about 10 minutes of the first episode and thought what a load of carp, I’d rather watch paint dry. I’m with Strato that I thought Wallace and Gromit on Christmas Day was excellent. I recorded it and watched it again as I knew I’d missed some of the humour.

Another series I can’t watch is Mrs Browns Boys. Never liked the Royale Family either as one of the lead actors always looked as if a good wash wouldn’t come amiss.

 

[stratobuddy]

Another series I can’t watch is Mrs Browns Boys. Never liked the Royale Family either as one of the lead actors always looked as if a good wash wouldn’t come amiss.

I agree.

 

[historymystery]

I agree.

Don't get me started on Mrs Brown's Boys. Biggest lot of rubbish on the box IMO and it gets trotted out on the TV schedule each year. Another one who knows where the bodies are buried, perhaps....

 

[historymystery]

I thought I was alone in not watching Gavin and Stacie. I watched about 10 minutes of the first episode and thought what a load of carp, I’d rather watch paint dry. I’m with Strato that I thought Wallace and Gromit on Christmas Day was excellent. I recorded it and watched it again as I knew I’d missed some of the humour.

Another series I can’t watch is Mrs Browns Boys. Never liked the Royale Family either as one of the lead actors always looked as if a good wash wouldn’t come amiss.

Nobody loves James Corden quite as much as James Corden does - can't stand him, and find his "humour" silly and childish. And I can't help thinking that the bloke who plays Gavin would make a very good Count Dracula (his hairstyle reminds me of the black painted-on hair that you used to see on clothes peg dolls)..

Mrs Brown's Boys = . (and definitely 'pants', not 'trouser', as per IW and QVC)

 

[Peppermint Patti]

I have a Sky puck too, mine has been playing up, but only over the past couple of weeks, I've had mine for over a year. The moving on to the next programme seems to happen to me only when I watch something that has already started, and choose to watch it from the start and then I fast forward through the ads, it happened last night. Also recently, around midnight, it seems to get stuck and replays the last few seconds of a programme over and over until I stop it! I don't know anyone else with a puck so it's good to hear your experiences.

We've had the playing the same thing over and over.

 

[madaunty]

Don't get me started on Mrs Brown's Boys. Biggest lot of rubbish on the box IMO and it gets trotted out on the TV schedule each year. Another one who knows where the bodies are buried, perhaps....

I didn’t mind the first couple of series and we went to see the stage show twice, which had us laughing til we cried, especially when the cast went “off piste” so to speak, and lost the plot as well.
But, I definitely think it should have been retired a good few years ago. Haven’t watched at all recently.

 

[PhædrusR]

Don't get me started on Mrs Brown's Boys. Biggest lot of rubbish on the box IMO and it gets trotted out on the TV schedule each year. Another one who knows where the bodies are buried, perhaps....

Lol, don't be such a snob! It may not be everybody's cup of tea, but it merits praise. I believe it started as a stage character of O'Carroll's 30 odd years ago, think of a pantomime dame, before it was picked up and transferred to tv. The setup, the occasional breaking of the 4th wall and with the crew and audience is novel for a sitcom too.

The scripts were clever, integrated a litany of classic jokes and phrases, well-written plots and engendered a sense of family and warmth.
But like everything, the pressure to keep churning out series after series takes its toll and the quality and new ideas reduces over time.

 

[historymystery]

Lol, don't be such a snob! It may not be everybody's cup of tea, but it merits praise. I believe it started as a stage character of O'Carroll's 30 odd years ago, think of a pantomime dame, before it was picked up and transferred to tv. The setup, the occasional breaking of the 4th wall and with the crew and audience is novel for a sitcom too.

The scripts were clever, integrated a litany of classic jokes and phrases, well-written plots and engendered a sense of family and warmth.
But like everything, the pressure to keep churning out series after series takes its toll and the quality and new ideas reduces over time.

.....but it merits praise.....The scripts were clever, integrated a litany of classic jokes and phrases, well-written plots and engendered a sense of family and warmth.
You reckon?
Pity he bothered breaking the 4th wall, although I know the mortar was flaking a bit.
Snobbery? Pot, kettle, black...

 

[LV73]

Lol, don't be such a snob! It may not be everybody's cup of tea, but it merits praise. I believe it started as a stage character of O'Carroll's 30 odd years ago, think of a pantomime dame, before it was picked up and transferred to tv. The setup, the occasional breaking of the 4th wall and with the crew and audience is novel for a sitcom too.

The scripts were clever, integrated a litany of classic jokes and phrases, well-written plots and engendered a sense of family and warmth.
But like everything, the pressure to keep churning out series after series takes its toll and the quality and new ideas reduces over time.

The first couple of series were great. The jokes and storylines were funny and it was very witty and near the knuckle. The off the cuff jokes when the actors had obviously gone wrong and Brendan was ad libbing were really funny.

After that it went very downhill with the same lazy jokes, laboured storylines, and just seemed to be very formulaic. Nothing new or fresh at all. The film was dire and so have the last few specials on at Christmas been really laboured and cringeworthy. I stopped watching last year as it just wasn't funny at all.

The Beeb just seems to recommission the same old rubbish which, if you looked at it as a stand alone programme, wouldn't make the grade at all.

 

[donna255]

I read an article about Mrs. Brown's Boys in a tabloid just before Xmas.

It said the BBC actually really hate the show, but it brings in millions of viewers watching it. So they don't feel they can cancel it.

Someone I know loves it, goes to the stage show every time it tours. I didn't mind the first few years and watched, but then just got bored with it. Brendan O'Carroll who is Mrs. Brown and writes it some years back said he didn't want to do it any more, and it did stop but then no doubt because of the money the show and tour came back.

She also a massive fan of Gavin and Stacey, watched from the first series and will watch the repeats. To be honest, I have only ever watched the two specials.